obticentia

Κυάμων απέχου, εμψύχων απέχου → Avoid broad-beans, avoid animals (Pythagorean injunctions)

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

obtĭcentĭa: ae, f. obticeo,
I a pause, sudden break in the midst of a discourse, as a rhet. figure: Ἀποσιώπησις, quam Cicero reticentiam, Celsus obticentiam, nonnulli interruptionem appellant, Quint. 9, 2, 54.

obtĭcentĭa, æ, f. (obticeo), réticence [fig. de rhétorique] : Cels. d. Quint. 9, 2, 54.